Painting ID:: 11785
Countess Jean de polignac 1932
3' 9 3/4'' x 2' 11 1/4''(116 x 89.5 cm)Bequest of Countess Jean de Polignac,1958
Edouard Vuillard 1868-1940
French
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Jean-Edouard Vuillard, the son of a retired captain, spent his youth at Cuiseaux (Saone-et-Loire); in 1878 his family moved to Paris in modest circumstances. After his father\'s death, in 1884, Vuillard received a scholarship to continue his education. In the Lycee Condorcet Vuillard met Ker Xavier Roussel (also a future painter and Vuillard\'s future brother in law), Maurice Denis, musician Pierre Hermant, writer Pierre Veber and Lugne-Poe. On Roussel\'s advice he refused a military career and entered the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, where he met Pierre Bonnard.
In 1885, Vuillard left the Lycee Condorcet and joined his closest friend Roussel at the studio of painter Diogene Maillart. There, Roussel and Vuillard received the rudiments of artistic training. Countess Jean de polignac 1932
3' 9 3/4'' x 2' 11 1/4''(116 x 89.5 cm)Bequest of Countess Jean de Polignac,1958
